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    "# Tutorials"
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    "This set of tutorials will show you how to perform the most common\n",
    "operations with `carray` and `ctable` objects, and you will see in which\n",
    "scenarios they perform best so that you can take the most of \n",
    "their features.\n",
    "\n",
    "``bcolz`` is part of the blosc ecosystem and the speed of many operations in these objects are possible thanks to <a href=\"http://www.blosc.org/\">blosc</a> an extremely fast, multi-threaded, meta-compressor library.\n",
    "\n",
    "Note: The `ctable` objects depend on `carray` objects, therefore the reader is \n",
    "recommended to understand first how `carray` objects behave \n",
    "before moving to the second part of the tutorial."
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    "Index:\n",
    "  1. [Tutorial carray](tutorial_carray.ipynb)\n",
    "  - [Interlude: measuring memory consumption on carrays](tutorial_carray_memory_profile.ipynb)\n",
    "  - [Tutorial ctable](tutorial_ctable.ipynb)"
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